Kolkata: Many colleges in Kolkata have decided to accept scanned copies of downloaded mark sheets at the applications stage as students of many boards have not received the hard copies of their Class XII score cards yet. The colleges ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) has convened an online meeting with private hospitals on Thursday after the latter appealed to the commission for clarification on capping of rates for five radiological and 15 pathological tests. ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata traffic police have proposed multiple measures, including road engineering interventions, to reduce traffic congestion and accidents. The note sent to Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) commissioner by Kolkata Police DC (traffic) has suggested 16 proposals, including improving ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Spurred by the pandemic, Metro Railway has started installing Quick Response-code scanners in the 26 Metro stations of the North-South corridor to make buying tickets contactless. East-West Metro already has the provision in its six operational stations. Once ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Bengal State Transport Corporation is all set to standardise the amenities for long-distance buses. The entire standardisation process aims at providing passengers some basic facilities to make their journey comfortable. From August 5, each passenger on the ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Three units of a hospital chain have been told to conduct free health check-up of underprivileged children and offer free health food to each of the kids attending the camp. The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, who chairs Bengal’s Global Advisory Board (GAB) on Covid-19 response, will meet chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday afternoon at Nabanna. A few other members of the board are also likely to be ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: A series of trawler accidents in the Bay of Bengal not very far from the coastline involving mostly vessels from South 24 Parganas has prompted the state fisheries department to look into a possible design flaw in trawlers ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The first of the three neighbourhood work cocoons in New Town, named ‘Happy Works Working Pods’ is going to be inaugurated on August 13. Developed by the Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) the pods will create a convenient ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Justice B Amit Stalekar and expert member Saibal Dasgupta of eastern bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) asked the railways to follow environmental laws while disposing of waste and treating effluent at Howrah and Sealdah stations. NGT ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: If all goes according to plan, residents of Salt Lake and New Town will receive electricity bills every month instead of once every three months later this year. State additional chief secretary (power) S Suresh Kumar has set ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The bodies of a young couple were found inside a rented flat in Nayapatty in Salt Lake on Wednesday. According to police, the woman, Srutidipta Guha Biswas (40), lay lifeless on the floor, while the man, Debasis Dasgupta ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bidhannagar police have started a drive against eateries, tea joints as well as roadside snack shops that have been remaining open till midnight, in violation to the Covid safety protocols. Bidhannagar police said more than 100 small and ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Delhi Police Special Cell officers took the help of Kolkata Police and carried out multiple raids in the Port area. One person was arrested for his alleged links with an inter-state organized drug cartel. The accused, identified as ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Repeated spells of moderate to heavy showers lashed Kolkata on Wednesday as a cyclonic circulation formed over north Bay of Bengal. Clouds hovered around the city from early in the morning, with the rain intensifying in the afternoon. ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Less than 24 hours after stormwater had started receding from some waterlogged pockets of north Kolkata, fresh showers on Wednesday inundated large parts of north and central Kolkata. In comparison, barring a few pockets, south Kolkata was largely ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Fliers and airline crew were delayed for the second time in a week after torrential rain flooded the area between Chinar Park and Haldiram’s on Wednesday. But while the Chinar Park crossing and service roads on both sides ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Intermittent rain all through the day slowed down traffic across the city, forcing cops to send out SOS to KMC to ensure that rainwater is drained out as soon as possible. Overall, central and north Kolkata were the ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The first list of admissions to the 125 seats of NUJS’s UG law programme will be released on Thursday. Candidates between all India rank (AIR) 24 to 216 have taken admission this time. Of the four in the ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The iconic Star Theatre, along with four properties of INOX, will reopen in Kolkata on Thursday. State-owned Nandan has already reopened on Monday. At a meeting of exhibitors held at Eastern India Motion Pictures Association (EIMPA) on Wednesday, ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: One-way fares between Kolkata and Dubai have shot up to twice the usual, from Rs 20,000-30,000 to Rs 55,416 following the decision by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to allow those with residency permits and double vaccination to ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Dhriti Banerjee has become the first woman to be appointed as director of the 105-year-old Zoological Survey of India (ZSI). The appointments committee of the Cabinet on Tuesday “approved the proposal for appointment of Dr Dhriti Banerjee, scientist ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaEDITED/ 428 words Howrah/Hooghly: After flight permissions were cancelled due to inclement weather, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday took the road to Howrah’s Amta and waded through flood water to reach out to affected people. Accompanied by Howrah ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaGhatal: Actor and Trinamool Congress MP Dev on Wednesday accused the BJP-led government at the Centre of doing precious little to implement the Ghatal master plan, the lack of which, he said, was causing annual floods in this West ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: A Kolkata girl desperate to return to her university in Hong Kong is taking a 10,000-km detour over 22 days to beat Covid restrictions that has turned international travel into a nightmare. On arrival in Hong Kong, Isha ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaHowrah/Hooghly: After flight permissions were cancelled due to inclement weather, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday took the road to Howrah’s Amta and waded through flood water to reach out to affected people. Accompanied by Howrah district magistrate Mukta ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta High Court has directed the state authorities not to arrest Suvendu Adhikari’s aide Rakhal Bera, an accused in five cases, till the next hearing on August 26. A division bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Subhasis ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee wrote to PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday, complaining about “the grave man-made flood situation in some districts... because of the unprecedented release of water” from three Damodar Valley Corporation dams. The letter followed a ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The two-member commission, comprising retired Supreme Court judge Madan B Lokur and former Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Jyotirmay Bhattacharya, set up to probe allegations of snooping in Bengal arising from the Pegasus issue, will start functioning next ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Four junior Union ministers will participate in the BJP’s week-long public outreach programme under its ‘Paschimbanga Banchao’ campaign to rebuild confidence in the ranks following the party’s setback in the Bengal assembly polls. “We will host programmes from ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The suspension of six Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MPs on Wednesday for protesting over the Pegasus snooping row in the Upper House escalated the party’s ongoing attacks on the BJP-led Centre, with MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay moving an adjournment ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaThis has been a difficult year for all, especially for the students who appeared for their board examinations. With having to attend online classes, not getting to meet their friends, missing school premises, their board examination getting cancelled and ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Dead bodies of a young couple were found inside a rented flat at a premium residential apartment in Salt Lake Nayapatty in West Bengal capital Kolkata on Wednesday evening. According to police, the woman – Srutidipta Guha Biswas ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaBHUBANESWAR: The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) in Puri on Wednesday announced to reopen the 12th century shrine for devotees on August 16. Devotees must show final dose vaccination certificate or RT-PCR negative report for the temple entry. The ...
5 August 2021 Times of IndiaLast week, when actress Sandipta Sen visited The Country House cafe, one of the waiters, came to her table at 7.10 pm and politely asked her to place the last order because the café was closing for the day ...
4 August 2021 Times of IndiaAGARTALA: A BSF jawan on Wednesday allegedly died by suicide using his service rifle in Khowai district of Tripura, a day after two personnel of the paramilitary force were killed in the state in an ambush by the outlawed ...
4 August 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Colleges and universities have created helpline numbers and e-mail IDs for students seeking admission in undergraduate courses to answer their queries or resolve issues in filling up the application forms as the online process of admission has ruled ...
4 August 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Multi-system inflammatory response (MIS) — an auto-immune disorder — has been afflicting scores of patients recovering from Covid or who have just tested negative to the virus. Believed to be triggered by an antigen-antibody reaction, it leads to ...
4 August 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Doctors in Kolkata issue caution as “revenge tourism” picks up, with Kolkatans going out for long holidays as well as to weekend destinations where Covid safety protocols are being compromised on many occasions. According to travel agents and ...
4 August 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 29-year-old woman, a private company employee, was stabbed on the neck by a biker near the Sarsuna Jheel — a few hundred metres from Sarsuna College — while she was returning home after work late on Monday. ...
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